I got it into my head last night to draw a random Murderbot design.
There it is. Scowling. Random sci-fi lines on its face, wild hair, rectangular pupils, me having to tint my own paper because I couldn't find my good brown paper in the middle of the night. Yeah.

This is on marker paper and you'd think, alright, this means this works really good for makers. Unfortunately, layering three or more markers makes the pigments push each other away. Canson, why do you do me like this. Next time I'm using cardstock again. The entire point of using alcohol markers is that they blend into each other. I'm just a wee bit mad about this.

#MastoArt #TheMurderbotDiaries

He seems confused. Poor Freddie.
(The pet sitters always send me nice photographs after every visit.)

I'm on vacation in Portugal (plus a day trip to Spain) right now and it took my cats three days to figure out that they can do criminal activities while the pet sitters aren't there. They keep moving the feeder of my boy cat as well as the front anti-theft cover. 😅

So I looked at some art shops in the EU since import taxes for tiny art shops outside the EU are often too high and wow, flat out all shipping € 10 or more. 😱
I better get on doing watercolor art of animals for my own walls 😔
(Unless someone knows a few Austrian artists who sell art prints and who paint cute stuff like cats and such?)

I'm ridiculously excited for Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8.
Not just because of the new subclasses and fun photomode shenanigans but also because the brother of a friend I usually play with will join us and we'll have a full multiplayer party of 4. He's got the game on PS5 while the rest of the party plays on PC.
Also, he never played it before and it's fun to witness someone play a game I like for the first time.

I recently finished an evil BG3 run with the Dark Urge and now moved on to being the most goody two-shoes I can be in a new run (that's already been going on for almost 9 hours so it's not that new).

I have to say, it's personally way more fun for me to be good.

I recently started reading Kaje Harper's werewolf books. I mean, I like some aspects of them, I dislike some others but all in all it's a nice book series when you like animal shapeshifters and the problem of keeping supernatural beings secret and such.

@Nightshade
Hmmm. Maybe you'd like Helluva Boss better? Sure, it has some singing but not nearly as much as Hazbin and it takes place in the same universe.

Somehow, I only have my OC Lark on my brain who is very, uh, let's call it 'sex positive'.
Do people who follow me on here generally know that I wrote a lot of smut in the past? I'm not sure. I guess, uh, that. Sometimes the mood strikes, despite being asexual. Oh well.

Oh finally, some art after such along, long time.
Here's Lark, one of my favorite original characters. I couldn't be bothered to figure out a background because getting back on the (art) horse was already hard enough. ^^"

#MastoArt #OriginalCharacter

My OC Lark with a new hairstyle. After 5 months of not really drawing anything I managed to kick my own ass thanks to a seminar I attended this week.

(While in essence it was a seminar about memory training, it also had some great points about how the human brain works and how to remind yourself better of stuff, which also helps a lot of motivation.)

#MastoArt #OriginalCharacter

I feel like my entire online life is just talking about my cats now and it doesn't bother me one bit lol

I had to bathe Mochi because she got poop stuck on her and I couldn't get it out otherwise. :'c (I have pet-safe wet wipes at home and even they couldn't get it out.)
Poor baby didn't want me to rub her down with the towel. Now she's so mad at me, she won't even look at me when I go into the living room.
Oh well.

I can't be the only one who thinks that AI voice covers of Linkin Park's 'The Emptiness Machine' with a simulated Chester Bennington voice are freaking gross, right?

(I got curious about other bands covering Linkin Park songs but alphabet company's search results are like 'oh hey do you want *this* instead?' oof)

On Friday I brought home my second cat - Mochi (formerly Stella, but the name is too similar to Bella).

Mochi is a super chill little calico who got a bit overweight at her foster home, so I hope I can switch her over to some healthier food soon. That is, if she eats properly. I'm currently struggling to get her to eat, I even went as far as getting her "cat milk". (It's just lactose-free milk with extra taurine and inulin.) But she drinks it so that's at least something.
She's originally a "stray" from Romania - which actually means, she is a cat that got abandoned in the streets of Romania, picked up by a rescue and then brought to Austria because they have kill shelters in Romania but we don't. So she's used to people and comes right up when I enter her room.

Introductions are .... going. It's too early to really say if they will get along. Bella is a bit of a bully at the moment and every time she sees Mochi, she hisses and growls at least once. (I've been told this is normal for the resident cat.) So I'm scent swapping as much as I can. Because neither cat really lies down on a blanket I'm basically doing it with toys and a washcloth.

So yeah, that's my cat situation right now.
Ah and, here is a non-blurry picture of Mochi. She usually moves a lot.

I had a quick shipping glasses moment when I looked at the Netflix Dragon Prince show and was like 'hmmmm Soren and Corvus after the time jump'

I mean, Corvus is an interesting character and Soren is basically a himbo.
I don't even want to look up how many people thought the same thing. Probably not a lot. I already held up my tiny corner of soft kylux for 7 years, I can't make it work for a netflix show that already had people complain about why they buried their gays so much in the earlier seasons.

You've probably heard that Paypal will start selling your personal data in November. Opt-out by turning it off:

In the EU, I found it under Settings > Data & Privacy > Interest-based marketing.

Elsewhere it has been found under Settings > Data & Privacy > PayPal Shopping or Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping.

#paypal #privacy

(Copypasted from someone's non boostable post with their permission.)

I got the pet gate and Bella doesn't understand that 77 cm height isn't technically enough to hold her. Either way, I have to extend the height, so it's no matter that she can't figure it out just yet.